Thursday, 30 June 2022

Britain, with a Government bent on closing down English Literature degree courses in universities, is no country for a celebrated old author called Phillip Pullman

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A Sheffield Hallam University spokesperson has confirmed that its English Literature degree course was among a small number of its courses t...
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Wednesday, 29 June 2022

Britain says "Farewell" to its Master Craftsman of Poetry for Children, Tony Mitton

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Tony, who has died at the age of seventy-one, was born in the January of 1951, in Tripoli, now Libya, in  North Africa, the son of Vera and ...
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Friday, 24 June 2022

Thankfully, Britain is still a country with an old dairy farmer called Michael Eavis, father and inspiration of the Glastonbury Music Festival

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Last week the BBC televised 'Glastonbury : 50 Years and Counting' and it was peppered with televised anecdotes from the founder of t...
Saturday, 4 June 2022

Britain, a country awash with Royal Jubilee celebrations, is no country for old Republicans .... for now

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Elizabeth Windsor, has now sat on the throne in Britain for seventy years. The woman, who had a poor education as a girl, has neither earned...
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Friday, 3 June 2022

Ireland made, but the World has lost that fearless traveller and much loved writer of travel books, Dervla Murphy

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Page views : 295 Dervla, who as a writer of over 25 travel books, written over half a century, had inspired and informed millions of readers...